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What's the big story in your area, that is sharing the headlines with big national or world news?

The past couple weeks for me, it's been:

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BOULDER - Two Boulder officers are facing several felony charges for shooting and killing an elk in the Mapleton neighborhood after an investigation uncovered that the officers had planned to shoot and kill the elk nearly 21 hours before, and then collect the animal for the "personal gain" of trophy and meat.

Turned out a couple of days later that a (probably false) rumour had gone around the city's Sikh community that a Sikh girl had been raped by a Muslim, and this was a group of Sikhs attacking a Muslim-owned restaurant.

Well, after about 20 crime-free years, my village recently had a major incident. A lawn-mower was stolen from someone's garden shed. Police were called, statements taken, and the place dusted for fingerprints.

Three or four days later the lawnmower was returned. Repaired. A bored neighbour had taken it to fix it as a favour for his friend, and was completely oblivious of the crimewave he had created. We then all relaxed and went back to normal. One or two people had even taken to locking their house when they went out!

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Originally Posted by Alareth

Local news? LOCAL?!?!

Who cares about local news when a college quarterback had a fake girlfriend!!!!!!!!!!!

Priorities people.

Sheesh! This story is the internet version, of the telephone game!
He's a LINEBACKER!

ETA: Local news is, Winter is GONE! 78+ today!

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A turbulent 15 months have passed since city council first voted to send the Toronto Zoo’s aging elephants to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), which runs a California animal sanctuary that takes in retired zoo and circus elephants.

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Pretty much bupkis. I can't really think of anything big in the news locally at the moment.

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Local news here seems to be about people setting cars on fire. There's been a series of car firebombings recently - it appears to be a bunch of kids just getting their kicks, but no-one's been able to catch them.

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